‘Game of Thrones’ 3.02 Recap: “The Raven Is You”
‘Game of Thrones’ is a show with so many characters and storylines that a one-hour season premiere episode can’t possibly set the stage for all of them. Thus, this week’s second episode felt an awful...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 3.03 Recap: “There’s Glory Enough to Go Around”
If the season’s first two episodes of ‘Game of Thrones’ felt a little too heavy on the set-up and somewhat, perhaps, uneventful, this week finally starts moving things along, and has at least one very...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 3.04 Recap: “You Hold the Whip”
Well hot damn! For three seasons now, Daenerys Targaryen has felt very remote and disconnected from everything else going on in ‘Game of Thrones’. We’ve known for quite some time that she’ll be an...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 3.05 Recap: “By What Right Does the Wolf Judge the Lion?”
While this week’s new episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ may not have the sort of spectacular, epic climax like we saw the previous week, it’s chock full of important story points that are well balanced by...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 3.06 Recap: “Chaos Is a Ladder”
For all the dark and twisted and shocking plot developments that ‘Game of Thrones’ rolls out on a regular basis, the part that I found most troubling about this week’s episode was the casual...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 3.07 Recap: “If Blood Is Your Desire, Blood Shall Flow”
Once a season, author George R.R. Martin writes the screenplay for an episode of ‘Game of Thrones’ himself. You might think that he’d do this to cover some monumental, game-changing event in the story...
View Article‘Family Tree’ Pilot Recap: “You Don’t Want to Put on a Hot Shoe”
HBO has a knack for luring notable filmmakers – as in, people who are perfectly capable of sustaining a successful career in feature films if they want – to the land of television. For its latest...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 3.08 Recap: “I Am the God of Tits and Wine”
You are cordially invited to celebrate the wedding of Lord Tyrion Lannister and Lady Sansa Stark. The ceremony will be followed by a reception to feature much feasting and imbibing of spirits, but...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 3.09 Recap: “The Lannisters Send Their Regards”
Well. Holy hell. A couple of our readers who are fans of the George R.R. Martin novels hinted in the Comments for our last recap that something big would happen in this week’s episode of ‘Game of...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ 3.10 Recap: “Death Seems a Bit Extreme”
The third season of ‘Game of Thrones’ drew to a close on Sunday. With just ten episodes each, these seasons are far too short! As one of our readers speculated last week (and which is consistent with...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.01 Recap: “Kill and Ask Questions Later”
Now that ‘Game of Thrones’ has finished its season for the year, HBO fills that programming void on Sunday nights with its next biggest original series. ‘True Blood’ has returned for its sixth season....
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.02 Recap: “It’s Time for Humans to Bite Back”
Oh, ‘True Blood’, why must you disappoint me so? One of the few things I said that I liked about last week’s season premiere, and you have to go and completely undo that right off the bat in this...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.03 Recap: “I Play by a Different Set of Rules”
Perhaps the most frustrating thing about ‘True Blood’ is that the show has a habit of taking characters we at one time or other actually like and sympathize with, and turning them into completely...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.04 Recap: “So Much Courage, So Little Experience”
Among other issues, the current season of ‘True Blood’ seems very confused about who the “Big Bad” villain of the year is supposed to be. Is it Warlow? Is it Governor Burrell? Is it Lilith (again)? Is...
View Article‘The Newsroom’ 2.01 Recap: “Is Your Suit Mildewing?”
I make no apologies for my love of Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Newsroom’, although I have come to learn that there are just as many people out there who abhor this program as there are those who think it’s the...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.05 Recap: “You Humans Love Pain, Don’t You?”
Another week goes by, and I’m still not certain who the “Big Bad” ultimate villain for Season 6 of ‘True Blood’ is supposed to be. We have another new candidate this week. Made clear in this episode is...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.06 Recap: “They Call Me a Danger Whore”
‘True Blood’ promised us a major character death, and this is all we get? Not that I have anything against Terry Bellefleur. He was an endearing, albeit minor supporting character who’d been around...
View Article‘The Newsroom’ 2.02 Recap: “Prison Changes a Man”
Two episodes into the new season of ‘The Newsroom’, it has become obvious that Sorkin and company are taking a somewhat different approach to telling stories. Gone – for the time being at least – is...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.07 Recap: “How Deep Do You Wanna Go?”
I think most of us were in agreement that Terry doesn’t really count as a “major character death” on ‘True Blood’, despite what the show’s advertising and promotion may have promised us. This week’s...
View Article‘The Newsroom’ 2.03 Recap: “There’s Gonna Be a Heartache Tonight”
Finally! After a so-so season premiere and a disappointing second episode, ‘The Newsroom’ finally gets back to what makes it a great TV show in Episode 3, ‘Willie Pete’. In short, we get less of the...
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